Utterly Inconceivable!!

Wow, who could have ever foreseen this:

On Tuesday, the Pentagon released information that showed 14 percent of former detainees have turned to, or are suspected of having turned to, terrorism activity since being released from Guantanamo. The data represent the most recent statistics of former detainees tracked by military and other U.S. government intelligence agencies.

Oh, that's right. I did, about a year and a half ago:

You hold people in stark conditions, without trial, for over half a decade. You torture some of them. And then, when they are released, you express some concern that they may have taken serious offense about the way they have been treated and that they might want some revenge?

Maybe you have read this:

"I didn't see a worse situation in my life than Bagram," recalled Zaeef. "They were beating me, they put me in the snow, in the cold, until I was unconscious."

Or this.

If you take young men and hold them for several years, without charges, brutalize them in barbaric "law free" zones, release them without so much as a "by your leave" and then if you were to profess shock at the idea that some of those men might want a little payback, most dispassionate observers would think that you were insane.

And so it is here. We are reaping what the Bush-Cheney Administration has sown. That only 14% of those released are trying to get some vengeance is astonishing. I'd have thought the number would have been much higher.